If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt

It can be perceived as horseplay. There was risky behavior, but fortunately people were sober. ... People could be slightly hurt, but no one was ever killed or brought to the hospital.

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?